Across Five Aprils
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published: February 1987
ISBN-13: 9780425094891
First sentence: Ellen Creighton and her nine-year-old son, Jethro, were planting potatoes in the half-acre just south of their cabin that morning in mid-April 1861; they were out in the field as soon as breakfast was over, and southern Illinois at that hour was pink with sunrise and swelling redbud and clusters of bloom over the apple orchard across the road.